Book description
Much more than a game controller, Microsoft’s Kinect is a bundle of high quality sensors for capturing data on depth, motion, and form. It was only a matter of time before spirited hackers got involved, and this hands-on guide—written by an editor of developkinect.com—highlights the best projects to come out of OpenKinect, the largest and most active Kinect hacking community. Each hack details a Kinect application and explains in detail how to reproduce the project.
Table of contents
- Kinect Hacks
- Preface
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1. Getting Up and Running
- Hack #1. How the Kinect Works
- Hack #2. How the Kinect Was Hacked
- Hack #3. Choose a Framework and Driver
- Install OpenNI, SensorKinect, and NITE for Windows 7
- Install OpenNI, NITE, and SensorKinect for OS X
- Install OpenNI, NITE, and SensorKinect for Ubuntu
- Install libfreenect for Mac OS X
- Install libfreenect for Ubuntu
- Install libfreenect for Windows 7
- Install the Kinect for Windows SDK
- 2. Programming Options
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3. Visual Effects
- Use Quartz Composer with Synapse for Kinect
- Draw in the Air with Processing
- Create a Gravitational Particle Effect
- Make Objects Follow a Tracked User’s Hand
- Dynamically Change Colors and Background Perspective
- Create a Live 3D Rendered Effect with Processing
- Create a Hairy Effect
- Create Hand Tracking Trails Using Cinder
- 4. Gestural Interfaces for Making Music
- 5. Motion Capture and Animation
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6. 3D Object and Scene Reconstruction
- Install RGBDemo and Skanect
- Import RGBDemo Output into Blender
- Use Skanect to Create a Scene Mesh
- Use Processing to Create a 3D Scanner with Mesh Viewer
- Import a Scanned Object for Printing with MakerBot
- Set Up PCL and OpenCV
- Display a Colored Point Cloud
- Use Features to Track Camera Image Motion
- Fuse Point Clouds into a Consistent 3D Model
- Add Convenience Functionality to a 3D Model
- Next Steps: SLAM, OctoMaps, Surface Reconstruction
- 7. Web Applications and Gaming
- 8. Robotics and Natural User Interfaces
- Index
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Kinect Hacks
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2012
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449315207
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